Newly rebuilt woodshed

[Burnham]

We've been steadily working at replacing a 20+ year old firewood storage structure this early winter. It's mostly finished at this point...some siding to be added as the spirit moves us and decent weather to do light construction presents itself .

The old structure was just a run of 7 split cedar fence posts with a flat roof of 2x4's and old corrugated metal...a 1/2 cord would fit between each 10 feet of run, stacked rick fashion...60 feet all together. The new structure is similar, but takes two rows of wood, so stores a cord per section...6 cords total capacity.

Turned out to be more work than I'd anticipated...partially because we had to move the existing 3+ cords of firewood out and then back in...doh!

Actually, I think we may convert the right-most section into a storage shed for general stuff...garden tools, wheelbarrows, other whatnot...we have a second woodshed that takes 5 cords itself, so 10 cords total storage capacity is 4-5 years at our normal usage rate. We heat about 95% with wood.

Here's some pictures .

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like this pic!

<img src='https://www.masterblasterhome.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38178&d=1323701380'>

 

[DMc]

...so 10 cords total storage capacity is 4-5 years at our normal usage rate. We heat about 95% with wood...

Sure, rub it in! We heat and cook year round with wood and go through twice that. Oh well, the choices we make.

You made a nice wood shed there.

Dave

 

[sotc]

Nice metal roof even! Does the wood sit on the ground or do you put something down?

 

[Burnham]

A third of the roofing is leftover packing layers from various batches of roofing or siding that we've bought over the years...the Metallion Industries plant is just outside of Estacada, and sells both wholesale and retail. The rest is brand new .

I lay down a couple of runs of scrap 2x4 per row of wood, or sometimes DF bark that sheds when I split the wood. Occasionally a piece on the bottom will show minor deterioration after several years of storage, but mostly not.

We've always tried to keep 3 or so years ahead on our supply...good cure is important, and if something comes up to prevent our getting wood in on one year, we don't ever have to worry about having heating fuel on hand.

 

[stig]

Your house must be very well insulated.
I still can't figure wood in cords, but I use about 30 cubic meters every year to heat mine.
And all dense hardwood, too, like beech and oak.

Fine looking shed, but it would only last me till mid january

 

[squisher]

Very nice looking. I use about five cord a winter, although it's still hard to tell what the total consumption will be at the new place, with the shop and all. Nothing beats wood heat!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nicely done Burnam. Looks great. I like the metal roof especially.

 

[Burnham]

Your house must be very well insulated.
I still can't figure wood in cords, but I use about 30 cubic meters every year to heat mine.
And all dense hardwood, too, like beech and oak.

Fine looking shed, but it would only last me till mid january

Stig, a cord is traditionally 4'x4'x8', which equals 128 cubic feet. My converter program tells me that equals 3.624556 cubic meters.

Your 30 cubic meters equals 1059.44 cubic feet, which converts to 8.276875 cords.

Which is about 4 times as much wood as I use per heating season, say September/October through April/May. I wish to heck I had access to the quality fuel you have...Doug fir is the vast bulk of what we burn...it's good, but not great.

Our house is 1500 odd square feet, or about 140 square meters. Two stories, 900 sf down, 600 sf up, no attic. 6 inch walls, R19; 12 inch roof, R30. Lots of big windows, double paned. The windows are the weak link, 1988 technology...we have already made arrangements to replace them with much more efficient ones come spring.

 

[squisher]

See Stig it's simple! Lol.

 

[stig]

So I only use about 3 times as much as you do annually.

Hey, that is no big deal

I'll store that figure 3,6 cubic meter somewhere in my brain, so I'll know it next time, thanks.

 

[brendonv]

Looks awesome B!

I've got too much wood in log form, and a hand tossed pile in split form. Went for my wood stove permit a couple weeks ago, I have to go and pick out a slab of rock for the hearth, and get to installing that sucker!

 

[flushcut]

That's one hell of a wood shed. I think you deserve a snifter of the good stuff for that one.

 

[Burnham]

Oh, you bet, my friend. Since it took us several weekends, I've been rewarding myself on a returning basis .

 

[Jack]

Very nice, B!

Obviously I like your design but you take better pictures.

I built a very similar one last year. However, I got a super insulated house and only need about 3 cords a year but store nearly 5. It has an above ground floor structure based on some scrounged aluminum shelving from a grocery store. The extended roof helps keep the ATV path clear of snow & mud.

- Jack

 

[flushcut]

Not bad but is it leaning or is that some kind of optical illusion form the trees?

 

[flushcut]

Oh, you bet, my friend. Since it took us several weekends, I've been rewarding myself on a returning basis .

 

[woodworkingboy]

Looks tight, nice going, Burnham. Nice packing in with the wood too. How are you at jigsaw puzzles?

 

[Burnham]

Looks good, Jack.

 

[Jack]

Not bad but is it leaning or is that some kind of optical illusion form the trees?

Every post is plumb. The illusion is, in part, from the trees - but also floor slopes down to match the grade so it wouldn't be three feet of the ground on the down hill side. That's what I get for buying mountain property - it works though.

 

[flushcut]

Cool beens!

 

[Al Smith]

It would make sense that Stig would go through more wood than B .I mean my look where he's at .

I use about 4 maybe 5 cord per year but that's only from November to maybe mid March

Nice shed B .

 

[Burnham]

Yeah, I live in a pretty mild climate. We have our times of real cold weather, which at my house means teens down to occasional sub-zero single digits...but most of the time a cold night is 20 degrees. Plenty of the winter nights it'll be not much below freezing.

 

[treesmith]

I have no idea how much firewood I use each year, because I burn it as I haul it. I always wanted to store some up for curing, but somehow I never get around to it. I burn very little wood that has to be split. I carry the big stuff to my dad, since he has a Hardy heater, and can put much larger pieces in than I can. I burn all the little stuff...

 

[gf beranek]

Today I turn the thermostat to comfort zone. Easy. In the past I used wood heat for years. Later, when diesel was cheap, I used the oil stove out of my boat. Now that was just as good as wood and a lot easier, and cleaner.